Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 225, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1920 — Page 6

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Juirtatra Haiti) Simce INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. Advertising Offices —Chicago, New York, Boston, Detroit, G. Logon Payne Cos. Entered as cecond-class matter at the postofflce at Indianapolis, Ind., under the ict of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rates —By carrier, Indianapolis. 10c per week; elsewhere, 12c. By mail, 50c a month, $1.25 for three months, $2.50 for six months, or $5.00 a year. ' ' ■■ = IF A MAN offers you a drink he is probably afraid it is wood alcohol .and wishes to try it on the dog. \ ALL SIGNS advertising intoxicating liquors must disappear at once. Ppwder the nose quickly, old timer. OH, WELL, Chip Lewis is one of the 9,271 negro voters of Marion county, and you can hardly expect the state to single him out for real prosecution. WE CAN NOT HELP wondering why Bill Blodgett and his phantom “kid” do not get in touch with Denny Bush and ask him where to play the, races instead of going all the way to New Albany. !-• f*. / ’ • • THERE HAVE BEEN GOVERNORS of Indiana who were not so fortunately situated as to be able to offer $15,000 blocks of stock for charity and make gifts of couponless bonds, and they paid more personal taxes, too. DEPUTY PROSECUTOR SPAAN confidentially confides to Judge Pritchard that he “doesn’t know a thing about the federal prohibition law” and it has been evident for a long time that he knows almost as much about the Indiana law. \ Mote to the Rescue Carl Mote, the able “exponent of taxation,” who has been constituted chief scribe of the Goodrich administration, has undertaken a defense of the unjust taxation of public utilities in which Gov. James P. is interested, and as a first step in this difficult task he writes The Tim™ a three-page letter in which he airs his own opinions and challenges the accuracy of The Times in an effort to make it appear that the recent statement by the governor has been misquoted. Mr. Mote has changed his opinion so many times in matters relative to public utility corporations, as is disclosed by comparisons of his writings on the subject, that further expressions from him are hardly of sufficient public interest to justify publication. His attempt to challenge The Times’ figures is, however, so indicative of the general propaganda circulated by him as chief publicity agent of the republican state committee that it deserves some attention as tending to show how much credence may safely be attached to anythin* he writes. Mr. Sfote says: “This is your language: 'Mr. Goodrich says that the Washington company would not sell today for a sum approaching its full appraised value, which he says Ik $312,000!’ - . “Asa matter of fact, the governor said-nothing of the kind. You yourself in the original story said the Washington company was appraised by the public service commission for $312,000, and, understanding your motives perfectly, the governor no doubt assumed you would not intentially understate the amount and did not look up the appraisement.” Here is the governor’s own statement, and we leave it to the reader to say whether we misled him: “Asa matter of fact, the record shows that it was assessed for $283,200, or more than 90 per cent of its full appraised value.” If $283,200 is more than 90 per cent of this property’s full appraised value, $314,666- is more than 100 per cent and consequently more than its full appraised value, which The Times still insists has been fixed by the public service commission and announced by its chief engineer at $312,000. The Lion's Tail Isn’t it about time to give the lion's tail a rest? Admiral Sims says somebody told him when he started for England, after we had broken - relation with Germany, that we would just as soon fight the British as the Germans. Kindergarten stuff! Anybody who said that must have been pulling the good admiral’s leg. Or else qualifying for a lunatic asylum. The difference between fighting Germany and fighting Great Britain in the late war was the difference between fighting against a military autocracy and fighting against a democracy. Whoever says we would ju3t as .soon fight one as the other has a lot to learn about Americanism. The only nation in the world that speaks our language, is governed by the same fundamental laws as ourselves, has the same democratic ideals as we have, is influenced by the same literature and reacts to the same tests of justice, is .the British nation. The only boundary line In the world that doesn’t have to be protected is the boundary line between the United States and British Canada. The only nation in the world that would come Instinctively to our help if ever we were hard pressed in wartime is Great Britain. The only nation we can trust to understand us in the period Os readjustments to world conditions through jvhich w-e are now passing is the British empire. What do we gain by going out of our way to twist the lion’s tail? That pastime ought to have beeff discarded when we grew up sufficiently to be able to celebrate the Fourth of July without banging off firecrackers. GreVt Britain needs us, and we need Great. Britain. That is a fundamental fact in international relations. Sometimes, however, a jingo arises to contradict it. Then Germany, Russia and Japan move closer together. For if ever the United States becomes permanently embroiled with Great Britain the day of Anglo-Saxon civilization will be done. Germany, Russia and Japan will mark that day as theirs. Deep down in our tinderstanding, we know this to be true. Building Ships The refusal the other day of the United States shipping board to accept a neat little government appropriation of $125,000,000 is not only unique in these days of reckless spending of the public’s money, but it brings to the fore the facts of America’s wonderful leap into the business of making ships. In the last two or three months there has been a very careful accounting in the shipping board’s affairs. The personnel of the force has been re--duced, a number of war-time departments consolidated and on top of it all the board has received a total of about $100,000,000 as rent for government vessels that have made many and profitable voyages during the last year. All this puts the shipping board on a peace basis. In April, 1917, when the board was organized, there were sixty-one shipyards In the United States with 234 ways engaged in building. In November, 1919, when the armistice was signed, there were 223 yards with 1,122 ways. In 1917, the United States launched 106 ships, totaling 708,970 deadweight tons; in 1918 the number was 812 ships of 4,344,126 deadweight tonnage. And in 1919 there were launched 1,065 ships with a tonnage of 5,982,277! There remains of the war construction program 534 ships of 3,661,767 deadweight tonnage, to be completed and delivered prior to August, 1920. Eighteen ships were constructed in Japan for a tonnage of 146,323. . All these activities and the taking over of the German and Austrian ships gives the United States a merchant fleet In deadweight tonnage of 8,700,912 steel ships; 1,799,123 wooden ships; 63,000 composite; 10,000 concrete; or a total tonnage of 10,573,040, excluding 3,661,767 to be completed in 1920. Rail Fences There seems to be a great deal, sometimes, in the association of ideas. Flying through the country in a railway train now and then one 'sees, meandering through an old woods, a crooked rail fence. And before him, associated with that idea, stands Honest Old Abe Lincoln, emancipator and America’s most famous rail splitter. Lincoln’s natal day, Feb. 12, 1808, will be celebrated next month. But the picturesque rail fence is being driven out of existence. Only in sequestered spots does it still remain. Second-growth timber has grown up about it bo that the old rails Seem to be winding in and out through the trees. The treeß themselves appear to be standing there, platoons of protection. The wire fence has sounded the doom of the rail one, even though scarcity of raw material did not. How little we once thought of timber. For some of those old rails, muscle-hewn, are solid walnut!

| WHAT OF THESE? O. S. Jones of Covington, Ind., lias submitted suggestions for a platform for consideration in the coming campaign which contains the following state planks: / 1. That a just and equitable system of tnxatiou be perfected and maintained by proper legislation, repealing all or such part of the present system as redders it inequitable. 2. That the greatest degree of locai self government be authorized by the legislature, and to that end anew constitution be written, bringing the organic law of the state up to preseat needs and insofar as is possible providing for the future growth of business and population. 3. A more simple method of holding elections and a revision of the corrupt practice act to meet the needs for a pure and uninfluenced vote by a ballot which 1s sufficiently lucid for the average voter to thoroughly understand; together with a more simple and comprehensive plan for holding primary elections. \ 4. Reguation of the public school system which will insure the best talent ns teachers and school officers, instead of lowering the standard of the public schools, together with efficient provision for the entire educational needs of the state. 5. More simple and effective method of public accounting, and a uniform method of instruction to public officer' where needed. 6. A more comprehensive system of detecting short weights and measures and adulterations of food products. 7. A less complicated and more efftVient system of building and maintaining public highways. 8. General retrenchment of expense for serving the public by placing responsibility upon the head of a da. I artment. y\'A nllimirtii 'U'cl tv- r .! >JVU' • One of the greatest writers of Russia was Fyodor Dostoevsky, a man who throughout his life lived in the moat abject poverty. His first novel, "Poor Folk,” at the Central public library, caused a critic to say to him: "To have written such a book you must have possessed the direct inspiration of an artist.” Having later incurred the illwill of the Russian government, who believed him to be in sympathy with a revolutionary movement when he was not, he was condemned to be shot, but was released at the last moment for four years’ hard labor in a Siberian prison. This terrible ordeal left Its Ineffaceable stamp on Dostoevsky’s life. He con stantly alludes to It, and in “The idiot" describes it at length. Out of his life in the Siberian prison developed bis unique sympathetic understanding of the peasants, outcasts and unfortunates. There were two determinative influences upon his writings—his prison life and his ill health. His best known novel. “Crime and Punishment,” and the inimitable “House of the Dead” are a djrect outgrowth of what he learned while In prison. To escape a debtor's prison, he fled abroad, where he lived for four years In dire want and misery. During this period he wrote his best works, "Crime and Punishment,” “The Idiot,” “The Possessed,” besides planning “The Brothers Karamazov.” Other books at the library by him are “The Eternal Husband,” “The Insulted and Injured,” “The Thief,” “A Raw Youth,” "Letters to His Family and Friends.” Someone has said of him: “Asa writer he reached and expressed the ultimate extreme of the soul’s rapture, anguish and despair, and spoke the most precious words of pity which have been beard In the world since the gospels were written. Dostoevsky Is something more than a Russian writer; he Is a brother of all mankind.”

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Nearly all the variety of colors found in fabrics and gowns are obtained by various processes of dyeing. Until quite recent years this art of camouflage was used in the preparation of tea for the market, but the enactment of tnori, stringent pure food laws has eliminated (he objectionable features of this practice. Tea first came from Assam, where tt grew as a tree thirty feet high, but pruning has produced the bush of two to four feet iu height with luxuriant growth of tender-leaved foliage. It is grown from the seed nnd produces in five years from the seed. It is ‘‘evergreen’’ and produces for a lifetime when once established. The leaves, however, are made Into lea only during the active period of growth when the upper leaves nnd terminal buds are selected. It may be picked by hand or machine, the latter method being now much in vogue, as It avoids the contact of the hands, and reduces the expense. In making green tea the freshly picked leaves are roasted over a fire for five minutes. They gfve off much vapor, lose - considerable weight and become llaccld. They are then rolled and returned to the pans and kept heated ann In constant motion until dry 'and the color has become fixed. The fragrance

Commerce Body Has Own Home and %,000 Members The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce occupies its own building at 28 South Meridian street. Its membership includes 4,000 individuals and firms of Indianapolis. In addition to Its general civic and Industrial work, It maintains the following departments: Freight and Traffic, Industrial Research, Wholesale Trade, Return Loads, Governmental Research, Foreign Trade, Motion Picture Exchange Managers, and Publicity. The Chamber of Commerce Is growing with Indianapolis.— One of a series of articles prepared for The Times by the convention board in charge of arrangements for the coming convention of of the Associated Advertising Clubs i of the World

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306.312 E. Washington St., Just East of Courthouse. Pre-Inventory Sale Reducing stock before inventory accounts for the low prices we are making on seasonable merchandise. Manufacturers’ and wholesalers’ prices to us are not lower, but all classes of merchandise are advancing and in the face of this condition, which means “later prices will be higher prices,” we urge our friends to purchase liberally during this sale.

Our Entire Stock of W omen’s Outerwear To Oo in This Sale. Including the Most Desirable f Coats - Suits Dresses $20.00 Values ) An aa $25.00 Values JIX $30.00 Values v $35.00 Values ) A| a r* $40.00 Values *) ftiy.OU $46.00 Values ) “ $50.00 Values ) dJOQ CA iu* $60.00 Values \ s|)fcia/4Jvr J All Alterations Free Pre-InTentory Sale of YARD GOODS 30c Muslin, 22c BLEACHED MUSLIN, yard wide, soft finish, for general use;' regular 30c Unbleached Muslin, 22c UNBLEACHED MUSLIN, yard wide, round thread, for general hbusehoid use, regular 30c grade, at.. K 22c Bath Towels, 15c BLEACHED BATH TOWELS, hemmed, for home or hotel use, regular 22c -# ff kind J.MV 35c Outing Flannel, 25c OUTING FLANNEL, 27 inches wide, assorted stripes, checks and plaids on light ground, Off gi regular 35c value, at *vv 25c Prints at 19c AMERICAN PRINTS, neat figures and stripes, full y pieces, no mill end lengths, regular 4 Qp • 50c Chambray, 29c ONE LOT CHAMBRAY GINGHAM, best quality, in plain colors and figures, regular 50c grade, at..-. mi9\* 60c Ticking, 49c FANCY TICKING, featherproof, assorted stripes. regular 60c grade, 49c BARGAIN TABLE 7c TOILET SOAP, Turkish Bath, etc. (limit 1 dozen), 45c dozen; a cake 10c KIRK'S COLONIAL BATH SOAP m (limit 12), a cake IV No Phone, C. O. D. or Mall Orders.

Do You Need a New Separate Skirt A most attractive collection of separate skirts for vour selection. The styles are wlnning and the materials are the ut- L \ most In style. There arc serges, pod- L lins, taffetas, silk poplins and novelty l,l plaids. Sizes for women and misses. [j r*J C Attractively priced— t At $10.98 to IS $17.50 General Clearance Children’s Dresses Most unusual savings may be afforded in these especially low priced lots, broken sizes and limited numbers, which must be closed out at once: $3.00 Dresses .........v $2.48 $4.00 Dresses $3.48 $5.00 Dresses $3.98 $6.00 Dresses $4.98 $7.00 Dresses $5.98 SB.OO Dresses $6.98 SIO.OO Dresses $7.98 COATS for Girls Ages 2 to 6 Years' This Is an assortment of coats for the little miss; they are absolutely new styles, and the fabrics and workmanship are of a high order. $5.00 and $6.00 ft O SB.OO and SIO.OO GQ Ages 6 to 14 Years They will make ideal coats for your girl for school , or dresß wear. The materials and making are excellent. SIO.OO coats. .....$ f •dr 0 SOAP SALE PREMIUM FAMILY SOAP, 10 for 35tf IVORY SOAP, 5 for 39<k P. <1 G. NAPTHA SOAP. 4 for 30< OLD DUTCH CLEANSER, 4 for 30<* KIRK’S FLAKE SOAP, 5 bars 33£ RUB-NO-MORE SOAP, 5 bars 35*

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